I was walking along Clarendon Road, Hove, on Friday, September 14.

Near the post office in Sackville Road, I noticed a postie's bag resting on the pavement. I waited approximately five minutes and still there was no postman to be seen.

I took a nosey peek inside the bag and it was clearly full of the day's second post.

People just carried on walking by and probably thought I was the weird one, messing about with a post bag. But nobody seemed concerned.

The bag was clearly marked with a name. I picked it up, slung it over my shoulder and took it to the post office in Sackville Road.

Am I stupid for not checking the contents of the bag properly? There could have been a bomb inside.

After all, there has been a lot of action in Brighton and Hove, with the Labour Party conference and a demonstration - and a non-stop mayoral campaign.

The public has a right to know just how the post office chooses to secure the public's mail.

When someone such as myself finds an individual's mail at someone else's front door or makes observations of mail regularly left unattended in blocks of flats, it makes one wonder just how safe things really are - or not.

-Miss R Khatum, Chairman, Goldstone House Residents' Association